“Our compatriots are fed up with social fraud,” said Bruno Le Maire on BFMTV-RMC. The declarations of the Minister of Finance, who accuses of fraud the people who would send money from social assistance “to the Maghreb” provoked the ire of the left. “They have no desire to see that people can benefit from aid, send them back to the Maghreb or elsewhere, when they are not entitled to it. It’s not made for that, the social model, “said the minister, ensuring” not to wink “at the far right.
For the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, “the far right dangerously fills the government vacuum”, he lamented, regretting on Twitter that the government “mobilizes racist prejudices to avoid remembering that social fraud is essentially the made by employers and that tax evasion is beyond measure”. “Day 1 of the 100 days of appeasement: flatter xenophobic prejudices”, also underlined the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud.
“You are here to create a diversion”
The boss of the deputies of La France insoumise Mathilde Panot, for her part, denounced the “big string”. “You will not extinguish social anger by sowing the poison of division. We now know that your moral decay is added to the political vacuum. On May 1, the united people answer you on the streets,” she tweeted. And the rebellious MP Thomas Porte recalled that “”social fraud” is estimated at 1 to 2 billion euros/year. On the other hand, tax evasion is between 80 and 100 billion euros/year”, inviting Bruno Le Maire to “go see Switzerland”, “rather than talking about the Maghreb and taking up the racist elements of the far right. “.
The ecologist deputy Aurélien Taché for his part estimated that the French “are especially fed up that people like Bernard Arnault, the richest man in the world, ask for Belgian nationality to no longer pay taxes in France”. “They understood that you are there to create a diversion,” he tweeted at Bruno Le Maire. The President of the Republic promised, during his speech on Monday evening, to “reinforce the control of illegal immigration”, while planning “strong announcements from the month of May” against delinquency and social and tax fraud.